Steps to adjust your progressive glasses

11/20/2011

Step1
Adjusting to your new progressive lenses is not likely to happen immediately for most people. The most important step to adjust to progressive lenses is to understand that you are asking your eyes to completely change the way they have been working. As time goes by, the need for progressive lenses has gradually become necessary as the lenses inside our eyes have become less flexible. When you put those progressive glasses on, your eyes must start learning where the zones of clear vision are. So first thing you have to do is get in the right mindset when you receive your new progressive eyeglasses from Glassesshop.com.

Step2
Progressive bifocals have a wide zone for reading at the bottom of the lens, a slightly narrower corridor for mid-range(computer) going up the center of the lens, and it opens up to a large area of prescription for your distance vision in the top of the lens. You have already understood that making the transition from one range of vision to another is probably not comfortable at this moment, but what you can test is the clarity of vision through each of those areas of the lens. Put your progressive lens eyeglasses on and leave them on for a week.

Step3
Hold your reading material up close at your usual reading distance. Your eyes should drop naturally to the bottom of the lens to view through the reading area of the glasses. Although technology is improving every day, the size of that reading space does not cover the whole bottom portion of the lens so you may have to move your head slightly to find the area of greatest clarity.The newest Free-form progressives have the widest area of view and are the easiest to get used to quickly. Glassesshop.com has very reasonable free-form progressive options.

Step4
Hold your reading material at arm’s length and repeat the vision test from Step 3. You are just looking for good visual acuity at this point. Once you find you can see well at that range, move on to the distance.

Step5
Now check out your distance vision through the top of your lenses. Look down the street. Look at people around you. Look at the clock.  Now it is time to work on functioning with the glasses.

Step6
Walk around, carefully, while wearing the glasses. Keep your eyes straight ahead. Vision should be clear. Then move your eyes slowly to the outside edges of the glasses and notice that the vision becomes less clear. Do the same while looking out and slowly drop your eyes lower in the lenses. The lower you get, the worse the vision becomes. This is because your eyes are looking through the prescription for mid- and close range. The key is to train your eyes to automatically find that “sweet spot” in the lenses that corresponds with the distance at which you are looking. It feels awkward at first but it will become second nature.